HW 3: Toward a More Participatory Democracy

In Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture written by Dan Burstein and David Kline, they talk about how a person just simply expressing their opinion about a political debate or election in a blog can change the voters opinions as well. In the chapter "Toward a More Participatory Democracy" it states that a well written and explained blog can change the votes of thousands of other people. I think that it is amazing that just because one person expresses their opinion in a blog that others are able to read and comment back with their own opinion, has the power to change other peoples opinion. Although people may read these blogs as just something to do in their free time, often after they read it they start to question and/or agree with what the writer was saying. Of course people that read the blogs and those who don't are still getting information from other sources of media, however; people that read the blogs are the voters that actually engage in political discussions rather then those who just believe what they hear on television or a radio.